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Due to the sparsity and irregularity of the point cloud data, methods that directly consume points have become popular. Among all point-based models, graph convolutional networks (GCN) lead to notable performance by fully preserving the…

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Photonic computing shows great potential for signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration due to its ultra-high speed, low energy consumption, and inherent parallelism. Existing photonic computing research has mainly…

This work presents a novel reconfigurable architecture for Low Latency Graph Neural Network (LL-GNN) designs for particle detectors, delivering unprecedented low latency performance. Incorporating FPGA-based GNNs into particle detectors…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Zhiqiang Que , Hongxiang Fan , Marcus Loo , He Li , Michaela Blott , Maurizio Pierini , Alexander Tapper , Wayne Luk

Point clouds provide a flexible geometric representation suitable for countless applications in computer graphics; they also comprise the raw output of most 3D data acquisition devices. While hand-designed features on point clouds have long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yue Wang , Yongbin Sun , Ziwei Liu , Sanjay E. Sarma , Michael M. Bronstein , Justin M. Solomon

Graph Network Simulators (GNSs) have emerged as powerful surrogates for complex physics-based simulation, offering inherent differentiability and orders-of-magnitude speedups over traditional solvers. However, GNSs typically assume access…

Point-based 3D point cloud models employ computation and memory intensive mapping functions alongside NN layers for classification/segmentation, and are executed on server-grade GPUs. The sparse, and unstructured nature of 3D point cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Amur Saqib Pal , Muhammad Mohsin Ghaffar , Faisal Shafait , Christian Weis , Norbert Wehn

FPGA is appropriate for fix-point neural networks computing due to high power efficiency and configurability. However, its design must be intensively refined to achieve high performance using limited hardware resources. We present an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Qingyang Yi , Heming Sun , Masahiro Fujita

The increasing scale of alternating current and direct current (AC/DC) hybrid systems necessitates a faster power flow analysis tool than ever. This letter thus proposes a specific physics-guided graph neural network (PG-GNN). The tailored…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Mei Yang , Gao Qiu , Yong Wu , Junyong Liu , Nina Dai , Yue Shui , Kai Liu , Lijie Ding

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) is the state-of-the-art method for learning graph-structured data, and training large-scale GCNs requires distributed training across multiple accelerators such that each accelerator is able to hold a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cheng Wan , Youjie Li , Cameron R. Wolfe , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Nam Sung Kim , Yingyan Lin

Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure. Due to its irregular format, most researchers transform such data to regular 3D voxel grids or collections of images. This, however, renders data unnecessarily voluminous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Charles R. Qi , Hao Su , Kaichun Mo , Leonidas J. Guibas

Three-dimensional (3D) point clouds are increasingly used in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and virtual reality (VR). Point-based neural networks (PNNs) have demonstrated strong performance in point cloud analysis,…

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A new parallel algorithm utilizing partitioned global address space (PGAS) programming model to achieve high scalability is reported for particle tracking in direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow. The work is motivated by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Dhawal Buaria , P. K. Yeung

Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure for many embedded applications such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. Current Point Cloud Networks (PCNs) have proven to achieve great success in using inference to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yiming Gao , Chao Jiang , Wesley Piard , Xiangru Chen , Bhavesh Patel , Herman Lam

Accurate and efficient power flow (PF) analysis is crucial in modern electrical networks' operation and planning. Therefore, there is a need for scalable algorithms that can provide accurate and fast solutions for both small and large scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Nan Lin , Stavros Orfanoudakis , Nathan Ordonez Cardenas , Juan S. Giraldo , Pedro P. Vergara

In-time particle trajectory reconstruction in the Large Hadron Collider is challenging due to the high collision rate and numerous particle hits. Using GNN (Graph Neural Network) on FPGA has enabled superior accuracy with flexible…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Shi-Yu Huang , Yun-Chen Yang , Yu-Ru Su , Bo-Cheng Lai , Javier Duarte , Scott Hauck , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Jin-Xuan Hu , Mark S. Neubauer

Graph neural networks (GNNs) process large-scale graphs consisting of a hundred billion edges. In contrast to traditional deep learning, unique behaviors of the emerging GNNs are engaged with a large set of graphs and embedding data on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Miryeong Kwon , Donghyun Gouk , Sangwon Lee , Myoungsoo Jung

Many artificial intelligence (AI) devices have been developed to accelerate the training and inference of neural networks models. The most common ones are the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). They are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 xiangyang Ju , Yunsong Wang , Daniel Murnane , Nicholas Choma , Steven Farrell , Paolo Calafiura

In this paper, we aim at improving the computational efficiency of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) for learning on point clouds. The basic graph convolution that is typically composed of a $K$-nearest neighbor (KNN) search and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yawei Li , He Chen , Zhaopeng Cui , Radu Timofte , Marc Pollefeys , Gregory Chirikjian , Luc Van Gool

Efficient processing and feature extraction of largescale point clouds are important in related computer vision and cyber-physical systems. This work investigates point cloud resampling based on hypergraph signal processing (HGSP) to better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Qinwen Deng , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding